Council to update register over accuracy fears

CORK County Council is to take on 70 additional staff to update the electoral register, amid claims from a number of politicians that several voters have inexplicably found themselves disenfranchised.

The local authority is also to send a letter to every household in the county, in an effort to get the most accurate information it can on who is eligible to vote.

At present there are 286,569 people on the register in Co Cork.